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We want to inform everyone in our community that as of June 14th,
The Sims Social will be retiring on Facebook.
We know that you may be disappointed by this. Retiring games is
never easy, we hope you've enjoyed playing The Sims Social as much
as we enjoyed making it. Thank you to all of our passionate and
dedicated players for supporting The Sims Social. We hope to see
you in some of our other titles on Facebook and other
platforms.

Q: What is happening to The Sims Social on Facebook?

A: On June 14th The Sims Social will be retiring on Facebook
which means the game will no longer be available for play.

The Sims Social has bit the bullet. On june 14th Simcity Social,
The Sims Social and Pet Society will suffer the fate of their
online counterparts before it, Sims Online and The Sims Bustin Out
Online, and shut down for good on June 14th 2013.

Well today marks the start of the second week of the T.S.S
Unsinkable series. Apart from the fact that there is a music
skill item and a logic skill item, I do not know much about the
quest and other Week 2-related items as I have not finished the
Week 1 quest (needed to start Week 2). I can tell you,
though, that there is a new promotional quest, MyLowe's Can
Remember It For You .... It is alike the
previous Progressive or Dove quests.
Completion of the quest will award you with the MyLowe's
Workbench - a not-so-useful item that gives you 0 house value, but
may drop Repair Drops when you interact with it. In my
opinion, I think that Sims Social quests have become progressively
harder in comparison to the simple weekly quests back in 2…

This week (17 - 23 January) is The Sims Social's T.S.S.
Unsinkable Week 1 week. As part of the two week quest, a
temporary quest location has been introduced— a large ship
consisting of two levels and various rooms such as a boiler room
and a cargo bay. It's sad that we can't keep the ship, but
that's not for us to decide. The chief items in this week's
theme are the Cogsworth Time Machine, ArcSteam Automobile,
FootGroove Dance Floor and the Grandster Master Stove. This
week also marks the beginning of a new three-part quest (Oceans Of
Love) ending in two weeks. There is a lot of work to complete
on The Sims Social this week with four items to finish so I better
get going!

We've heard rumors that a new two week theme is going to start
tomorrow. It will have a brand new quest location called TSS
Unsinkable, a whole new batch of clothes for ladies and gentlemen,
and several fairly large project items.

If you get a chance, stock up on car related items (Tyre Pump,
Batteries etc) because we'll be needing them with the new driving
skill item!

The Victorian Romance Week started a few hours ago and we've
already got tons of content posted up on the wiki! There are two
main project items (the Evergreen Bird House and the Ivory Tower
Tree House) and a music skill item (the VicAges Harp) that we can
finish. All three of those items are required to complete the new
three part Victorian Values! quest.

There are a handful of new shop items that are strangely colored
for 'victorian' items, but we have them! This week was expected to
be slightly reminescent of the Victorian Elegance Week from
December of 2011, but it seems to have a more modern interpretation
to it. But there are a few new clothing items in the shop. The main
clothing article requires that you build the VicAges Female
Man…

We've heard rumors of a new winter pets theme that will include
a baby deer and a polar bear cub. Those huge things in your yard at
the Winter Chalet will be their houses! The new theme will last two
weeks and we will need to use Alan and Vicky at the Winter Chalet
to complete it.

We've seen a major boost in new wiki contributors lately and I
just wanted to say thank you to anyone and everyone that has helped
out lately! You guys are amazing

The new Pet Theme week series begins on November 22 (GMT)! It
will be a two week theme series where you can build a dog house or
cat house as project items - and if you finish both weekly quests
and a skill item on time you can have a special limited time
pet!

Our first pet will be awarded when we finish the Dog House or
Cat Hamlet project items. In order to build them, you're going to
need loads of Rubber Duckies! We'll need 22 Companionship (for
cats) or 22 Loyalty (for dogs) - they're both crafting items, and
each one takes 2 Rubber Duckies and 1 Water plus 2 of either a Cat
Collar or Dog Bone. That means you'll need 44 rubber duckies for
each pet house!

The pets will be unique items- we can train them to earn Pet
Stars and use the Pet St…

The new Egypt Theme week is coming out tomorrow and it will have
a whole host of new items. This will be a two week theme, that
comes with a limited time quest location. You will need to build
three different project items and complete both of the weekly
quests. The big award? Two of the lot expansion spots at your beach
house.

This theme has been long requested on the official EA forums
ideas/suggestions thread and it is exciting to finally see it
happen. With the new location they'll be adding tons of new shop
items to make it look pretty. And we'll (of course) have the option
to purchase these items over the two weeks. Are you excited
yet?

We've seen loads of new editors around lately and I want to say
welcome to everyone!! You guys are working hard and getting some
amazing stuff done! The admins have added a few little beautifying
extras to the wiki over the last few days, to make everything just
a little bit more shiny.

You'll see a new icon in your web browser (next to the name of
this webpage) that is a combination of the Sims PlumbBob and the
wikia brackets that was designed just for you! You wouldn't believe
it, but making a 16 x 16 pixel icon look much like anything can be
a challenge. It may get more fancy later, but we're pretty proud of
our work for the moment.

In addition to the favicon, we're working on a new wordmark for
the top of the wiki. It will replace the te…

The new theme week is here and with loads of issues. The Your
Very Own Halloween Castle! quest requires that you clear several
different Yard items from the new Midnight Grove location. You can
use the Language Trick to get the Halloween Ghosts, Skulls and the
Hand Of Horror to respawn - but NOT the Dark Bramble or the Lagoon
Snake.

Some issues with the Hand of Horror mean that the first four
hands that come with your Midnight Grove will not drop Silver. But
you can use the Language Trick to get more that WILL drop it. The
Silver also says you can investigate Vampires in your yard to get
silver, but this yard item will not be available until a later week
in October.

Halloween Ghosts are required to complete the quest, and none of
these will …

We've been hearing some buzz about the new theme week coming out
tomorrow - and you'll be thrilled to know that TSS is rolling out
another Halloween theme for the month of October! There are loads
of new creepy and exciting items, and as an added bonus they are
bring back all the Haunted Skills items from last year along with
many of last year's favorite at HALF PRICE! Plus fun new Sim
costumes and outfits!

AND - if that wasn't enough - they are unveiling a new Halloween
themed Quest Locations! We keep hearing that if you complete the
quest on time, you can keep the quest location! If the rumors are
true, and we hope they are, that would add a fourth location to
anyone able to finish off their project and skill items.

There have been a few changes to the Sims Social over the last
two weeks - the most notable is that you can now change your Sim's
gender for 1000 instead of the requirement! You can now change from
male to female to male and back again until your heart is content
(or you run out of Social Points). For those of you who have
purchased all the clothes you can possibly think of and still want
to add to your House Value, this might be something to consider.
You'll still get to keep all your current gender clothes in
storage, so your house value won't go down once you switch
genders.

Some of the admins are going to be making changes to the current
wiki navigation bar (green bar at the top of the screen) to make
things easier to find and to hel…

A new theme week is about to start in a few hours that will be
another two week long quest series! The Italian Holiday Week theme
will run from 9/27 to 10/10 and be a similar style to the Mystery
Mansion Week stuff we just finished. There will be a new, temporary
quest location at the Italian Villa that will appear on your Sim's
Location map. You can complete the quest steps by going to that
location and working on all the skill items that appear.

The new two week quest is called Wonders of Ancient Rome and
will require you to finish building the Venutia Lusso Marble Bath,
My Gladion Pal and the The Perfect Sim statue. You will need to
complete all the Art Skill levels on the Venutia Pasta Counter, and
complete the two weekly quests and col…

The new Murder Mystery Party Week is coming out tomorrow - and
it will include a 2 week long, 9 part quest. This quest will add a
new location and your Sim will have to find clues and finish skill
items in the new mansion to unlock an additional 9 rooms. This
location may only be available for the two weeks during the quest -
so be sure to enjoy it while you can! There are two prizes for
completing the quest on time - a driving skill car (listed below)
and a Sirenia Oasis Fountain that looks similar to the Koi Pond
with a mermaid fountain in it.

I was asked to helpout by a friend and I am more than willing.
It's been many many years since I did wiki coding so please be
patient with me. I never inted to "wreck" things but I will take my
time and take baby steps until I get into the swing of things. Drop
me a line if you want or have suggestions. I don't bite.... well
normally I don't lol.

The newest theme we will see in just over 24 hours will be the
Fairy Week theme. It will have a large sized project item tree
called the MeadowShine Fairy Tree. We'll also have a few new yard
items, and a handful of new backpack items this week. The clothing
previews look like we'll be getting the option to add more wings to
our Sim's clothing collection and a new shirt with a cape! The
tricky part is that many of these items will be SimCash only.

The new quest page called Do You Believe In Fairies? has been
posted if you'd like a quick preview.

The new yard items this week (Sesame Seeds and Green Tea) are
bugged. You may have noticed they were hard to find in your yard,
and they do not reappear when you reload the page. Some of you may
have accidentally cleared them before you realized you needed them
for the Just Wanna Have Sumo Fun! quest.

The good news is that the spawn problem has been reported to
the developers, and they are 'investigating' the issue and working
on a fix for it. You may remember there was a similar problem
with the mythic Flower Head Garland back in May. The developers
were able to patch the game mid-week and force the item to spawn
correctly, and they extended the time for the quest. We may see a
similar fix to the two new items.

After a quick update this morning, The Sims Social now shows
possible drops from each item action! You can hover over any action
(in the skill menu or regularly) to see the items that are possible
drops from doing that action. If you already have the maximum
number of an item in your inventory, that item wont drop from doing
an action and won't show up if you hover over the action button.
See the picture below.

We are hoping this will be a permanent feature of the game and not
just another option the developers have been playing with like the
"Read for Fun" action on chairs. If during this week you notice
that we're missing anything on possible drops from any item, please
feel free to jump on in and edit those pages.

^.^ hye guys.. this is my 1st blog here.. and im going to share
some tips about simsnap. I hope it is usefully to you guys!

Do you ever been stuck while playing the simsnap..?? There are
TWO tips that i found (experience by myself):

AVOID from click any request at the inbox. You MUST close the
inbox (by click done) and play the simsnap first. You CAN collect
the request after you finish playing the simsnap..!

AVOID send request to friend if your booster crafting item is
going empty and you're about to play the simsnap.

The reason for this TWO situations is because sometimes TSS
pop-up box had slow loading, then if you are playing the simsnap
before the pop-up of 'accept the request at the inbox' or 'send the
crafting item request' are finish l…

Nearly all of the items released just a few weeks ago during
British Eccentric Games Week will be leaving the shop at the end of
the current theme week. This includes the two skill items: Coates'
Umbrella Stand and the Prestige Glass Harmonica Table. If you
happen to be building a giant fence of WotWot Leafy Barriers or
need any of the other items to complete your home's look, get them
now while they're still available! The floor tiles and wallpaper
options introduced that week will also be leaving the shop at the
new week theme update at midnight on August 23 (GMT).

As most of you have already seen, the new week theme coming out
in a few hours will be the James Bond/Spy week! It includes a
monstrous project item, the SeaLox Luxury Yacht, that requires
LOADS and LOADS of backpack items. If the previews aren't changed
before tonight, this needs 17 planks - yes, you need to craft 17
planks over the next week to build it.

The Yacht will be placed in the water at your beach house, so if
you want to clean up your beach house yard to start collecting the
items you'll need, I'd recommend it.

There will also be a Shark Tank item for sale in the shop - that
looks like it will be 15K Social Points. So start sending out free
gifts of social points to your friends now.

According to a recent blog post on the EA Forums, the Sims
Social developers are going to roll out major changes to the new
SimSnap mini-game.

Last Monday they changed the amount of time it takes get a new
life from 9 hours down to 6. This helped many people, but other
changes are still in store to help out everyone else. They plan to
fix the browser zooming problems, reducing the number of items it
takes to craft boosters, and dropping the Kochanski Chess Set
requirement to finish part 3 of the Game On! [[Quests and
Achievements|quest].

Many of you may have seen a few previews for the upcoming
anniversary week to celebrate the one year anniversary since the
official release date of The Sims Social! Initially there was some
concern that the remake items we've seen before (like The Great
Dragon Tower) were all going to be SimCash only items.

- BUT -

The latest news is that the week will be filled with one quest
each day, in a similar fashion to the Festive Chic week quests over
the week of Christmas in 2011. Each quest will look back at some of
the popular Sims characters and themes we've seen and the reward
for completing the quest will be a remake version of popular
items.

- AND -

If you manage to collect all 7 of the special remake items, you
will get a wonderful new Driving…

The new astronomy/science themed geek week will be released
tomorrow and it looks like most of the new skill items will require
loads of Social Points to purchase. The project item looks like it
will be free, like many of the other project items released in the
past. But the sneak previews we've seen of the chess set, and
several other items show a 5K Social Points price tag per item.

If you've checked your stock and are low, or just blew all your
social points on the G King Counter, don't worry. You can still
request social points as a free gift from your Sims friends. You
can also use the 'Splash About' action on hot tubs like the
InSimity Skytide Hot Tub while visiting friends to get 2 times the
normal social points drop per action.

The drop rate for Power Drill has changed a number of times over
the last few days. It appears as though the final switch is going
to add the Power Drill to the general repair drops. So now when you
repair an item, it could drop a hammer, wrench, nails, screws,
dunkin donuts boost, or power drill. In addition to the repair
drop, power drills are also dropping from actions that refill your
hunger need too! They will be much easier to obtain now, which is
good news for anyone still working on the Penthouse projects.

Be sure to help us update the British Eccentric Games Trophy
page with any special item drops you get for polishing your new
trophy. And head on over to the Player Levels page to check out the
new 60 levels added to the game yeste…

During the day today, EA released a new set of Player Levels
that now extends beyond level 100. There are a total of 60 new
levels! If you're one of the players enjoying the new 100+ levels,
feel free to help update the player levels page.

You may have noticed that around the time of the new levels
release, your energy bar wasn't filling as fast. The half time
refill period is officially over, and we are back to waiting five
minutes for each energy. I hope you used the half-time refills to
get as many items built and simoleons as you could.

Remember we should still see two of the unreleased British
Eccentric Games week items drop this weekend! And if you haven't
seen it yet, check out the British Eccentric Games Trophy page and
help us post …

The new theme this week British Eccentric Games has arrived!
There are several new skill items, instead of the usual project
items to complete this week. The Coates' Umbrella Stand will
provide you with additional Athletic Skill levels, the Prestige
Glass Harmonica Table will level up your Sim's Music Skill, and the
Percival Penny Farthing bicycle will give you an additional
Athletic Skill boost for some SimCash. To check out all the new
items visit the British Eccentric Games week page.

It appears as though there are another three items that will be
released over the weekend.

This flag is similar to the Flagged Up Pole we saw released a few
weeks ago during Country & Western Week, but it has a gold
coating and three new options. This item …

For those of you who have not been able to complete your various
penthouse projects, there is good news! We have been granted an
additional *three* days to finish everything and we get to keep the
double speed and energy!

Also - If you're having trouble getting into the office because
of garbage, see the note on the ZecuTime Home Office page.

This week we've seen several surprise interactions with random
items and it appears as though EA is trying out new item
interactions across the board. Several days ago there was a short
period where you could wash/clean windows. The newest interaction
seems to make chairs more functional (without something sitting
directly in front of them like a computer or typewriter).

Say hello to the "Read for Fun" interaction. The chair must not
have anything directly in front of it for this to work. Find any
chair and use the action 'Read for Fun' and your Sim will pull a
book out and go to sit down in the chair. This raises the Fun need
and will drop all the Backpack Items associated with fun actions: .
Some of the other actions have become available…

In case you haven't wandered over to the skills category in the
shop recently, you may not have seen the helicopter reward from the
A Lofty Challenge! quest in the driving skills section.

The DragonBug 270 looks like it will have several driving skill
levels for your Sim to master, and a handful of interactions for
you and visiting friends to enjoy. It looks like working this hard
to complete that Penthouse on time might actually be worth it.

EA is giving us yet another special present this week!! Starting
tomorrow for one entire week they will be giving us double
the walking speed -AND- our energy bar will refill twice as fast!
If you have the ninja trait maxed out already, there may be little
or no difference (but we'll have to wait and see).

This should make getting your Penthouse cleared up and the
CuisineMuse Master Kitchen built much more quickly! Happy Simming,
everyone!

The announcement by EA suggested the double time would start on
July 12 with the new week's update, but it has not happened yet. No
word on if this is still a possibility, or if there is a
glitch.

For those of you who completed the second phase of building the
Ataraxia Leisure Pool and then immediately regretting having the
add on slide, beach ball, and pool float there is good news! You
now have the option to remove them!

EA added the interaction recently to 'pack up' these large
pieces of equipment on your pool, with no energy cost to you. You
can 'Unpack' them again at any time. So if a bright orange slide
doesn't fit your sophisticated backyard pool and bar area, pack
those things up and relax.

The newest surprise gift session from EA to players has been
running three days and counting. Strange sims show up on your
doorstep and provide gifts of Hope, Buttons, Social Points, Energy,
and Simoleons. Some people are receiving a gift at both their
Penthouse AND regular Home or Beach House. It seems as though these
people left their Sim at the penthouse before logging out of the
game, and were double gifted for their trouble. No word if this is
a glitch or an on-purpose move from EA.

There is no way to know how long this gifting session will last,
but in all likelihood we'll continue to see them until the end of
this theme week cycle. So saddle up and hope tomorrow's gift is
something you can use!

And the expired one that I'm not concernd with finishing any
time soon is this one:

8- Country Stage 1/3 = 4/8

It's really hard as many know to finish up an item in time to
get the bounses when you have to ask so many times for so many
items to help you and sometimes there are bugs preventing those
things from working. >.>

For those of you who logged in today and noticed that something
was a little different - there is a strange sim standing in your
doorway offering you a suspicious package - Fear not! EA announced
on their forums today that they would be giving gifts to anyone who
logged in today and claimed it.

You can see their official announcement here: EA forums

So these strange sims lurking around your house are not a virus
or a creepy interloper, but in fact a genuine effort by EA to send
us all some love (and Hope). I thought I might as well post this on
the Community blog, just in case any of you stumble around looking
for information about it. So just this once, it is ok to
accept strange packages from Sims you dont know.

While I am sitting here on this wikia I am quickly realizing how
long I have been playing "The Sims Social". Seems like yesterday
the app just opened up to the public and I was quickly racing to
complete the long list of quests along with all of the other early
starters. Since then the game has really grew from weekly themes to
weekly limited questlines to a larger focus on crafting and now
careers. I haven't been this addicted to a social game in a very
long time and I can't see myself stopping anytime soon. Enough of
my rambling for the moment. Happy gaming everyone.

While I am sitting here on this wikia I am quickly realizing how
long I have been playing "The Sims Social". Seems like yesterday
the app just opened up to the public and I was quickly racing to
complete the long list of quests along with all of the other early
starters. Since then the game has really grew from weekly themes to
weekly limited questlines to a larger focus on crafting and now
careers. I haven't been this addicted to a social game in a very
long time and I can't see myself stopping anytime soon. Enough of
my rambling for the moment. Happy gaming everyone.

While I am sitting here on this wikia I am quickly realizing how
long I have been playing "The Sims Social". Seems like yesterday
the app just opened up to the public and I was quickly racing to
complete the long list of quests along with all of the other early
starters. Since then the game has really grew from weekly themes to
weekly limited questlines to a larger focus on crafting and now
careers. I haven't been this addicted to a social game in a very
long time and I can't see myself stopping anytime soon. Enough of
my rambling for the moment. Happy gaming everyone.

I have never had much use for Facebook. (Sorry, Facebook!) I had
played ONE other Facebook game (Superpoke Pets) and quickly got
tired of it. But after several of my friends started playing The
Sims Social, I had to give it a look. And I immediately became
obsessed with skills, quests, finding out what exactly you can do
with social interactions once you reach "Frienemies", and so
on.

Skill items are my favorite. They were the thing that made me
eventually cave in and buy SimCash. And once that door was open, I
had to buy more and more skill items, until finally I had
everything that had ever come out (at least since I've been
playing!), and adding more people to get more collectibles to
unlock more skills to skill up more items...